Chicago - Dubrovnik service possible in 2021
American Airlines could introduce flights between Chicago and Dubrovnik in the coming years, with its new routes out of Philadelphia used as a testing ground for future operations out of the carrier’s O’Hare hub. American’s Vice President for Network and Schedule Planning, Vasu Raja, said, “As we go and start things in Philadelphia, and they work, it becomes a means to develop routes for Chicago. Barcelona, Venice, Prague and Budapest all started from Philadelphia, and we realised they could all work from Chicago too, given where the traffic was coming from”. Seasonal flights from Chicago to Budapest and Prague will launch in 2020, after two years of operations from Philadelphia.
The head of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board, Romana Vlašić, previously said the Philadelphia – Dubrovnik service would lead to the launch of new routes from the United States. "This pilot project with American Airlines will grow over the coming years to include more American cities as well as new airlines. We have been working intensively on the US market for years”. She added, “The American market is the second most strategically important for us in terms of visitors, just behind the United Kingdom. We expect flights to be extended throughout the season first and then for new routes to be added”.
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| Dubrovnik on the cover of this month's American Airlines magazine |
American Airlines will add an additional weekly frequency between Philadelphia and Dubrovnik starting next week for a total of four weekly until the end of September, with the service to resume on a daily basis in June of next year. “Dubrovnik went really really well for us”, Mr Raja said. He added, “We can connect 95% of the United States over Philadelphia, and [at] none of our competitors’ operations in New York or the northeast can they do anything really remotely close to that”. Prior to the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, JAT Yugoslav Airlines maintained a one weekly seasonal nonstop service from Dubrovnik to New York JFK, as well as a one weekly service to Chicago with its wide-body DC-10 aircraft. Furthermore, Pan Am offered daily connections to New York via its Frankfurt hub, using a Boeing 727 on the inter-European sector.
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